My actual quote ended "...and status", and "frame of reference" was important. The article is a reflection on I recently saw this tweet asking people about th

My actual quote ended "...and status", and "frame of reference" was important. The article is a reflection on I recently saw this tweet asking people about their career's most expensive mistake which appears to at least indicate a long term financial (and no doubt time/energy/status/skills/etc) view. It's not to say there aren't useful (if rather overly played) points in there and similar articles; but the whole thrust is about "career growth" and "brand" and dismissing either directly or by implication engineers who prioritise life as being vastly more important than work.